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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

Ok now i have a problem with loaded any window manager! the gnome loging manager works but then why i try to loging with user to gnome it brings me to a gray screen and nothing happens no error message no nothing? Im not sure what to do....I figured it might be a problem with sumthing i updated with swaret but im unsure. The most recent packages i updated are coreutils-5.94, bash-3.1, xfoprogs-2.7.11, clisp-2.38. But i dont really think they would do anything to this? Gnome failsafe works fine? Im not sure where to start....i searched logs and logs and found nothing to do with why gnome isent loading?

I've seen something like this happen with an incompatible video driver. I'm assuming Gnome-failsafe reverts to the vesa driver, which is why it would be working. I agree the packages you upgraded via swaret shouldn't affect wm functionality.

Ok i know they tell you never to do this...however gnome works fine with root? You think sumhow when i was downloading programs for my burner i messed sumthing up or maybe got a virus? im kinda confused im not sure whats going on? when i booted up my kernel today i gota weird message ill copy it here with hopes sumone knows whats wrong here?

I've never seen this before!!! I know that before i went into my kernel and removed a few modules i didnt need i remeber sum1 saying that you can go to make oldconfig and do make after your done and after will work? But i booted a few times after that and this sure as heck didnt show up?

Ok root and my user both have the .dmrc file. But they both dont have the .xinitrc? whats that for could that be causing me all the trouble? roots working perfectly? better than user ever did? I tried making another user and it still has the same trouble? as my user? Anyways know what i should do?

.dmrc is a resource file for the desktop manager(gdm). It tells the manager the last used window manager logged into by the user. In this case 'gnome'.

.xinitrc is used by the startx script to autostart programs and to tell xinit the command to launch the desired window manager when X starts. In this case 'gnome-session' - the command that actually starts Gnome.

A missing .xinitrc usually doesn't cause problems, xinit will just revert to a global shared file. An empty .xinitrc will cause problems because xinit will try to use something that has nothing in it. But this doesn't seem to be the case. For a new user to have the same problem, and looking back at the details of your original post, I think the next place to look is the Xorg (or XFree86) conf file at the graphics driver and any modules that are getting loaded. Also check the permissions of the Gnome files with ls -l, maybe gnome-session itself. The users are lacking permission to something required for the windows manager to load.

To narrow the problem you can:
1. If you have other window managers installed try one of them.
2. Try creating a .xinitrc as descibed earlier, exit out of X to the console if necessary, and as the user run startx. .xinitrc should be owned by the user and executable.

Sorry guys i've been really busy....but i know whats wrong with booting in as the user. I now get a error saying my .xinitrc file is not readable or exec for user it then goes on to say make sure you change the permissions on this file....I checked out this file and it has the permissions 644 and its owned by user? Im not sure what to do i tried to delete the file and remake it with those permissions? Can someone maybe check there permissions on and tell me what they have? I dunno what to do i get this error everytime i try to log on as any user now?